Bakubung Koepe rope-up procedure successfully completed

South Africa’s first locally designed and built mobile rope-handling system, engineered for installing both head and tail ropes onto a four-rope Koepe friction winder, was successfully used at Wesizwe Platinum’s Bakubung mine in the North West. The system was designed and manufactured by the Tech Edge Group, based in Johannesburg, in conjunction with lead consulting engineers for the project WorleyParsons.